“Tagesthemen” presenter Ingo Zamperoni gave the Republican US presidential candidate a false last name: The newsman asked his expert on the set about “Donald Duck.”
What was going on with Ingo Zamperoni? A brief blackout or a Freudian slip of the tongue from the “Tagesthemen” presenter? At prime time on Tuesday evening during the “Tagesthemen” live from Washington, Zamperoni turns to his guest on the set, the political scientist Liana Fix, after a report – and then it happens.
“Ms. Fix, we just heard it, Donald Duck… Trump… probably wouldn’t accept an election defeat, but what happens then, what are the fears?”
The expert seems to have missed Zamperoni’s misfires. She answers his question without batting an eye.
Zamperoni himself leaves it at the brief slip of the tongue and the quick correction and does not repeat the mistake or explain it: not in the further course of the interview, not at the end of the program. It remained unclear whether he had accidentally given Trump a false name.
The German-Italian Zamperoni is known for occasionally having fun on the time-honored daily news program. He had already made people sit up and take notice at his premiere in 2016 when he said goodbye to the audience at the end of the program with a deliberately exaggerated Italian accent and the sentence “I don’t have any final sentence.”
There had previously been speculation in the media about what words he would use to end the program. His predecessors Ulrich Wickert, Tom Buhrow and Thomas Roth each made a fixed farewell formula their trademark.
It is not the first time for Trump that he has been teased with the name of the cartoon drake from Duckburg. In 2023, Chris Christie, his then competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, attacked him sharply and called him “Donald Duck”. The excerpt from a television debate went viral, and many follow-up gags on social networks followed.
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